Working Title

Media Packaging and the Margins of Art
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-0-520-42830-0
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 298 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

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Working Title is about all the supposedly mundane things involved in creative work that you're not supposed to talk about: the prerequisites, formalities, long waits, copyright battles, packaging dilemmas, and project pitches (like the one you're reading now). This book delves into European and transatlantic audiovisual media from the 1960s and 1970s, including performances, visual art, installations, and films, which might seem well-known to us as avant-garde artworks from "the past"—but in this book, they don't remain there. Exploring the less visible media among these works—from video games, photography, television, and YouTube videos to legal texts, containers, rubbish, and paperwork—Kalani Michell unsettles the familiar motivating mythologies of art of this era and makes space for the heavy lifting these media do, carving out what and how they mean for us today and revisiting their forgotten futures.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Michell, Kalani

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Installations-, Aktions-, Computer- und Videokunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Populärkultur
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Work Before “the Work.” And After1. In Line to Wait2. Taking Down Pictures3. Three (-Plus) Ways of Spilling Ink4. Unboxing Magazines5. Film PitchesConclusion: Dunnage DealNotesBibliographyIndex

Über Autor(innen)

Kalani Michell is Assistant Professor of European Languages and Transcultural Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she works on art, film, and media.